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Originally Posted by Luce
Jeez, don't worry so much about yesterday, last week, last year whatever. Consider this: yesterday you were probably trying to think abut what you did the day before. The day before that you were probably trying to think about what you did last week. No wonder you can't remember what you did.
Whatever happened yesterday is been and gone anyway. What purpose does it serve to remember it? The only moment that matters is NOW, and if you spend NOW struggling to remember what you did this morning, yesterday, last week, last month, then the only thing you will ever remember is the struggle to remember.
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totally agree. years ago, i had so much dissociation and time distortion that not remembering a lot wasn't even a concern because so much was going on in general that i didn't even know about it. being conscious enough now to realize there is a time distortion is interesting to me.
while it can confuse me and concern me at times, it's not like i can change it, and they aren't huge things that i need to remember anyway. i'd be MORE worried if i could not remember significant events as opposed to the smaller everyday details that my brain doesn't have the capacity to hold to remember. short-term (and long-term) memory issues have always been part of my life due to many, many things (not just dissociation), so it's my normal.
i don't know when it's called amnesia or just regular forgetting though. it seems to be a grey area with that depending on the person and their 'normal' memory processing.
it only gets me when i'm a day or few ahead or behind or don't know what month or year it is (but time just is irrelevant in general it seems). i constantly have to look at the computer or phone to figure out the date just so i'm kind of on the same page as it (time, i mean).